Dr Gijs Rommelse

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Biography

My alma mater was Leiden University (the Netherlands), where I obtained my MA in 1999 and my PhD in 2006. I also spent three years as a graduate student at University College London, where I did much of the research for both degrees. I have had various teaching jobs in the Netherlands, worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Military History and was a research fellow at the Netherlands National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. I am currently Head of History at the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum in Hoofddorp (the Netherlands).

Research interests:

I specialize in seventeenth and eighteenth century political and military cultures. I have published on Anglo-Dutch relations, naval ideologies, prisoners of war, privateering and political economy. My current book project is titled The Dutch and their fleet. National identity and sea power, 1570-1815. Together with Dr. Ismini Pells, I intend to conduct a comparative research project into military welfare in England and the Dutch Republic during the third quarter of the seventeenth century.

Selected publications:

The Dutch in the Early Modern World. A History of a Global Power (Cambridge University Press, expected June 2019) (together with David Onnekink)

Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815 (Routledge, expected July 2019) (edited volume, together with Alan James and J.D. Davies)